Father and son
Mike Selvey has announced his retirement from all cricket, including games played on excursions
Siddhartha Talya
25-Feb-2013
Mike Selvey has announced his retirement from all cricket, including games played on excursions. The decision, as he writes in his blog in the Guardian, was prompted by a failed attempt to sledge his son in a Dads v Lads game.
One day he might need counselling, for it must be an unnerving experience for a young boy to have his parentage questioned by his own dad. He laughed again. I resolved to bounce the crap out of him. Even at my best I rarely bowled bouncers, and then only to people who didn't hook and just ducked. It was an inexpensive game I played to keep Mike Brearley happy when he thought I wasn't being sufficiently aggressive enough and it never cost runs.
Siddhartha Talya is a senior sub-editor at ESPNcricinfo